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Content heading: The Voices

We remember Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez, Betty Friedan and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But there are countless others whose voices you may not recognize. Voices that carry the untold story. Voices that should forever be remembered. These are the Voices of Civil Rights.

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